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>Chapter 22. Localization</H1
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>  This chapter describes the available localization features from the
  point of view of the administrator.
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>      Using the locale features of the operating system to provide
      locale-specific collation order, number formatting, translated
      messages, and other aspects.
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      <A
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>      Providing a number of different character sets to support storing text
      in all kinds of languages, and providing character set translation
      between client and server.
      This is covered in <A
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